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THE 

SCIENTIFIC 

TEMPERANCE 

FEDERATION 


36  BROMFIELD  STREET 
BOSTON,  MASS. 


THE  Scientific  Temperance  Federation  was  organized  in 
1906.  There  was  then  no  general  interest  in  the  scientific 
facts  about  alcohol. 

Its  aim  is  popular  education  in  facts  which  medical  and 
social  science  have  discovered  about  alcohol.  Not  until  the 
people  clearly  understand  these  facts,  will  they  take  definite  and 
lasting  action  against  the  use  of  alcohol  and  the  liquor  traffic. 

The  Facts  Taught 

The  facts  deal  with  effects  of  alcohol  upon  health,  efficiency, 
industry,  longevity,  and  race  soundness.  For  nine  years  the 
Scientific  Temperance  Federation  has  been  persistently  putting 
them  before  the  American  public  through  various  educational 
agencies. 

An  Organization  With  a Specialty 

It  has  been,  and  is,  the  only  organization  in  the  United 
States  devoting  its  efforts  solely  to  this  educational  work. 

Progress  Made 

It  is  a striking  feature  in  the  temperance  situation  today 
contrasted  with  that  of  ten  years  ago,  that  now  everyone  who 
is  acquainted  with  the  alcohol  question  recognizes  these  scientific 
facts  as  the  best  reasons  for  abolishing  alcohol,  and  that  educa- 
tion concerning  them  is  a work  of  first  necessity. 

Contributed  New  Methods 

The  Scientific  Temperance  Federation  is  an  exceedingly 
important  factor  in  securing  this  advance  in  public  opinion.  It 
has  contributed  to  the  American  anti-alcohol  movement  several 
valuable  new  methods  of  work.  It  has  led  in  applying  to  the 
alcohol  question  the  methods  of  education  against  alcohol  suc- 
cessfully used  in  Europe,  and  in  the  United  States  against  tuber- 
culosis and  typhoid,  and  in  behalf  of  child  welfare,  and  mental 
soundness. 


Resources  for  Facts 


The  Federation  has  been  able  to  lead  in  this  work  because 
it  has  specialized  in  the  collection  and  dissemination  of  infor- 
mation on  alcohol. 

Its  library  contains  much  material  not  found  elsewhere  in 
the  United  States.  It  is  consulted  by  university  professors  and 
students,  writers  on  social  subjects,  physicians  and  lecturers.  It 
is  closely  indexed  in  a catalog  of  over  6,000  cards  which  give 
ready  reference  to  books,  reports,  pamphlets,  magazines  and 
other  periodicals,  notes  and  cross  references  to  other  scientific 
libraries. 

The  Federation  is  in  close  touch  with  the  leading  European 
societies  of  similar  purposes.  It  numbers  among  its  correspond- 
ing members  several  of  the  European  experimenters  and  uni- 
versity professors  acknowledged  as  authorities  on  the  alcohol 
question.  These,  and  similarly  well  known  American  physicians, 
cheerfully  give  special  information  and  advice  on  questions  re- 
ferred to  them  by  the  Federation. 

Uses  Existing  Educational  Agencies 

The  Scientific  Temperance  Federation  has  strictly  avoided 
adding  the  expense  and  machinery  of  new  local  organizations 
to  the  temperance  work  of  America.  The  Federation  believes 
that  it  is  better  to  work  through  the  varied  existing  agencies  for 
disseminating  facts.  This  saves  the  expenses  of  multiplied  or- 
ganization, and  also  brings  behind  this  work  of  education  in  the 
facts  about  alcohol  the  influence  of  educational  agencies  which 
are  not  primarily  temperance  organizations. 

The  Federation  works,  therefore,  through  Boards  of  Health, 
the  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association,  the  Press,  Insurance 
Societies,  Expositions  (Tuberculosis,  Child  Welfare,  Hygienic, 
Charities,  etc.),  Conferences,  Missionary  Societies,  and  Sunday 
Schools,  as  well  as  with  the  distinctively  temperance  organiza- 
tions. 


Making  an  Appeal  to  the  Eye 

The  Federation  was  the  first  organization  in  the  United 
States  to  attempt  to  present  the  scientific  facts  about  alcohol  in 
concrete,  graphic  form  by  charts  and  diagrams. 

These  were  originally  prepared  in  the  form  of  hand-made 
charts.  They  were  instantly  welcomed  as  something  new,  inter- 
esting and  convincing.  They  went  into  every  section  of  the 
country  and  to  several  Canadian  provinces  as  little  travelling 
exhibits. 


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The  Scientific  Temperance  Federation  Exhibit  at  The  World  in  Baltimore. 


Editors  asked  for  them  to  illustrate  articles  on  the  alcohol 
question.  In  the  five  years  these  hand-made  charts  were  used, 
they  reached  millions  of  people. 

But  such  charts  were  necessarily  expensive.  There  were 
not  enough  of  them  to  reach  the  great  universal  field  of  the 
country.  The  next  step  led  to  an  extremely  important  develop- 
ment in  the  temperance  work  in  the  United  States. 

The  First  Anti-Alcohol  Exhibit 

In  1912,  the  Federation  was  invited  to  contribute  an  exhibit 
on  the  alcohol  question  to  the  Exposition  of  the  International 
Congress  of  Hygiene  and  Demography  at  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  success  of  European  temperance  exhibits  was  an  encour- 
agement to  undertake  this  for  this  country. 

Funds  available  for  the  purpose  were  meagre,  but  the  prep- 
aration of  the  exhibit  was  accomplished.  The  Exposition  man- 
agement scrutinized  carefully  beforehand  the  facts  to  be  used 
and  in  many  cases  the  plans  for  presenting  them.  When  com- 
pleted, the  exhibit  contained  about  250  diagrams,  models  and 
pictures.  They  illustrate  graphically  the  most  important  scien- 
tific, social  and  industrial  facts  about  alcohol.  Many  of  the 
separate  exhibits  won  special  commendation  as  exceptionally 
clever  and  varied.  The  Jury  of  Awards  of  the  International 
Hygiene  Congress  Exposition  awarded  the  exhibit  a diploma  of 
merit. 


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Safety  First — The  Scientific  Temperance  Federation  Exhibit  at  the 
International  Safety  Exposition,  1913. 


The  exhibit  has  been  in  practically  constant  demand  during 
the  intervening  three  years.  The  Federation’s  policy  of  reach- 
ing the  people  through  general  educational  agencies  has  been 
followed  in  its  use. 

It  drew  great,  interested  crowds  during  the  six  weeks’ 
period  of  the  two  great  Missionary  Expositions,  the  World  in 
Chicago  and  in  Baltimore. 

It  was  awarded  gold  and  silver  medals  at  the  International 
Safety  Expositions  of  1913  and  1914.  Closely  attentive  and 
inquiring  business  managers,  officials  of  great  industrial  cor- 
porations, workingmen,  thronged  it  twelve  hours  a day.  It  has 
been  used  at  Mental  Hygiene  and  Child  Welfare  Exhibits,  at 
the  International  School  Hygiene  Congress,  the  International 
Sunday  School  Convention,  great  national  religious  and  temper- 
ance conventions,  by  local  Young  Men’s  Christian  Associations, 
at  State  Fairs,  on  travelling  health  car  exhibits,  etc. 

During  1915,  the  exhibit  was  displayed  at  the  Panama- 
Pacific  International  Exposition  at  San  Francisco  under  the 
direction  of  the  Federation’s  Field  Secretary  in  connection  with 
the  Anti-Saloon  League  of  America,  reaching  from  500  to  2,000 
people  daily.  In  1916  it  visited  many  cities  of  the  country  as 


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A Store  Window  Exhibit  of  Facts  About  Alcohol. 


a part  of  the  Social  Service  Exposition  composed  of  exhibits 
from  the  Panama-Pacific  Exposition.  In  connection  with  this 
work,  the  Field  Secretary  addressed  many  schools,  colleges, 
normal  schools,  and  women’s  clubs. 

Local  Anti-Alcohol  Exhibits 

The  Federation  has  encouraged  and  stimulated  the  small 
local  anti-alcohol  exhibit.  Its  pamphlet,  “Reaching  the  People 
Where  They  Are,”  gives  directions  for  organizing  such  exhibits 
in  stores  and  halls.  Crowded  attendance  in  every  case  has 
demonstrated  the  value  of  this  contribution  of  the  Scientific 
Temperance  Federation  to  the  educational  temperance  work  of 
the  country. 

Parts  of  the  exhibit  have  been  duplicated  and  are  at  work 
in  Canada ; or,  as  loan  exhibits,  are  rented  for  definite  periods 
in  towns  and  cities  carrying  on  an  educational  campaign  against 
alcohol  or  against  the  saloon.  Twenty-five  thousand  people  saw 
the  exhibit  in  fourteen  days  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  The 
local  expense  for  bringing  this  large  amount  of  information  to 
25,000  persons  was  less  than  it  would  have  been  had  the  com- 
mittee in  charge  simply  tried  to  convey  to  them  one  fact  by  a 
postal  card. 


Whom  the  Exhibit  Reaches 

Secretaries  of  boards  of  health,  college  presidents,  official 
representatives  of  foreign  governments,  newspaper  representa- 
tives, members  of  Congress  and  other  legislative  bodies,  em- 


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ployers,  men  engaged  in  all  kinds  of  industry,  athletes,  fathers 
and  mothers,  young  men  and  young  women,'  boys  and  girls  of 
ages  and  degrees.  Even  the  “gutter  snipes,”  once  interested, 
come  again  and  bring  others  with  them,  and  eageriy  demand 
that  these  friends  be  told  what  has  been  told  .to  them,  the  new, 
fascinating  story  of  “alcohol  and  the  joims , (germs)’!’,  or  what 
the  baseball  manager  has  to  say  about  drink  as  a handicap  to 
efficiency  and  success. 

The  exhibit  opens  the  eyes  of  men,  women  and  children  to 
what  alcohol  is  doing  around  them,  suggests  hovy  largely  it  is 
contributing  to  incidents  or  conditions  in  which  they  had  not 
hitherto  looked  beneath  the  surface. 

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The  Results  of  ti-ie  Exhibit  i 

Practical  personal  problems  regarding  drink  are  often  pre- 
sented in  the  opportunity  for  quiet  conversation  and  instruction 
which  the  exhibit  affords  when  under  the  charge  of  a'  competent 
demonstrator.  It  has  at  hand  instant  teaching  material  in  the 
form  of  concretely  illustrated  facts  for  meeting  personal  ques- 
tions or  doubts  concerning  the  effects  of  alcoholic  drinks.  Hun- 
dreds of  persons  have  expressed  their  gratitude  for  what  they 
have  thus  learned. 

Three  statements  by  visitors  to  the  exhibit  of  the  Scientific 
Temperance  Federation  are  typical  of  repeated  comments  by  the 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  people  who  have  seen  the  exhibits 
during  the  past  four  years : 

The  first  was  that  of  a young  man,  evidently  of  good  fam- 
ily and  general  intelligence.  He  said  that,  with  other  young 
men,  he  had  often  indulged  in  the  use  of  alcoholic  liquors  be- 
cause they  were  easily  accessible.  When  shown  a number  of 
charts  relating  to  health  and  efficiency,  he  said  from  time  to  time, 
“I  didn’t  know  these  facts,”  and  finally  he  said  with  conviction, 
“No  more  of  this  for  me.” 

The  second  significant  remark  came  from  a man  who  con- 
fessed that  he  had  been  a bartender  for  many  years.  He  said 
he  knew  all  of  these  facts  were  true,  that  he  had  seen  them  from 
behind  the  bar.  He  had  himself  been  obliged  to  leave  drink 
entirely  alone  because  “there  is  no  place  to  stop.” 

As  he  passed  on,  he  declared : “This  is  the  greatest  pres- 
entation of  the  anti-alcohol  question  which  I have  ever  seen. 
If  anything  could  stop  young  men  from  going  to  the  saloon  and 
contracting  the  drink  habit,  it  will  be  conviction  by  cold,  hard 
facts  such  as  you  have  here,  and  I believe  these  will  do  it.” 

The  third  remark  came  from  a clergyman,  a pastor  in  one 
of  the  most  widely  known  churches  in  America,  who  said,  “This 
exhibit  has  converted  me.  I’ve  always  been  a ‘temperance  man’ 
but  now  I’m  going  to  fight  alcohol.” 


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"If  anything  could  stop  young  men  from  going  to  the  saloon  and  con- 
tracting the  drink  habit,  it  will  be  conviction  by  hard  cold  facts  such  as 
you  have  here  in  the  exhibit  on  alcohol, — and  I believe  these  will  do  it.’’ 

■ — Ex-bartender. 


Posters 

The  immense  educational  value  of  the  exhibit  of  the  Scien- 
tific Temperance  Federation  makes  it  clear  that  some,  at  least, 
of  this  material  ought  to  be  in  every  town  in  the  country.  This 
has  been  made  possible  by  the  American  Issue  Publishing  Com- 
pany which  has  published  a series  of  fifty  posters,  prepared  by 
the  Federation  from  exhibits.  Large,  attractive,  all  illustrated, 
many  printed  in  two  colors,  these  posters  have  been  carrying 
their  truths  about  alcohol  into  every  State  in  the  country  and 
to  many  foreign  lands.  Nearly  100,000  large  posters  were  sent 
out  in  two  years,  to  say  nothing  of  many  thousands  of  the  small 
sizes.  (See  illustrations  pp.  10  and  11.) 

Used  in  Campaigns  Against  the  Saloon 

They  have  proved  a most  helpful  and  important  factor  in 
several  states  in  campaigns  for  the  abolition  of  the  saloon,  be- 
cause they  show  dispassionately  and  convincingly  what  the 
alcohol  which  the  saloon  sells  does  to  individuals  and  to  society. 

Factories  and  Churches 

Churches  and  Young  Men’s  Christian  Associations  are 
using  them  on  their  bulletin  boards.  They  are  being  put  up  in 
shops,  mills,  railroad  stations,  stores.  Employers  in  some  of 
the  most  important  industries  of  the  country  are  using  them  in 
their  plants  for  the  information  of  employes.  They  often  sup- 
plement the  posters  with  pay-envelope  leaflets,  data  for  which 


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came  from  the  Scientific  Temperance  Federation.  The  results 
of  this  industrial  education  are  already  excellent. 

Stereopticon  Slides 

The  Scientific  Temperance  Federation  has  prepared  a 
popular  illustrated  lecture  for  the  stereopticon  showing  the 
scientific  facts  about  alcohol.  These  and  other  slides  are  con- 
stantly in  demand.  Young  Men’s  Christian  Associations, 
schools,  educational  museums,  ministers,  and  lecturers,  who  deal 
not  only  on  alcohol  but  with  allied  subjects,  are  constantly  carry- 
ing to  the  people  through  the  medium  of  these  slides  the  infor- 
mation that  the  Federation  has  thus  made  available. 

Publications 

The  Scientific  Temperance  Journal  edited  by  secretaries  of 
the  Scientific  Temperance  Federation  brings  out  each  month  the 
latest  scientific,  social  and  economic  facts  on  the  alcohol  ques- 
tion. It  reports  the  various  practical  educational  methods  used 
in  this  or  other  countries  to  get  facts  to  the  people.  The  Journal 
is  the  only  publication  of  this  nature  in  the  United  States  and 
aims  especially  at  getting  the  facts  to  the  leaders  of  thought 
who  in  their  own  towns  and  cities  have  an  opportunity  through 
pulpit,  press,  college,  school,  social  and  professional  relations  to 
shape  and  guide  public  opinion. 

Books  and  Pamphlets 

The  Handbook  of  Modern  Facts  about  Alcohol  reproduces 
the  posters  and  with  explanatory  and  supplementary  data  is  an 
important  compendium  of  facts  concerning  alcohol. 

The  industrial  aspects  of  the  question  are  presented  for  the 
employer  in  the  pamphlet,  Alcohol’s  Ledger  in  Industry.  The 
workman’s  viewpoint  is  represented  in  a series  of  pay-envelope 
leaflets. 

Five  million  copies  of  a special  bulletin  prepared  by  the 
Federation  for  the  M etropolitan  Life  Insurance  Company  were 
published  by  that  company  in  ten  languages,  reaching  7,000,000 
policyholders. 

Another  pamphlet  prepared  for  the  International  Young 
Men’s  Christian  Association  has  been  widely  circulated  by  that 
organization  among  its  members  and  associates. 

The  International  Series  of  Pamphlets  (1915)  edited  by  the 
secretaries  of  the  Federation  brings  to  the  American  public  for 
the  first  time  some  of  the  best  European  works  on  the  alcohol 
question,  accounts  of  experiments,  addresses  of  university  pro- 
fessors, etc.,  heretofore  not  available  in  English. 


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When  we  help-  fathers  to  be  sober  we  help  end  this  plight  of  children. 

"The  number  of  children  forced  to  leave  home  because  of  drunken 
parents  mounts  into  the  thousands  every  year.” — Mrs.  Frederic  Schoff. 

Public  Health  Campaign 

A new  series  of  publications  on  Alcohol  and  Public  Health 
continues  the  campaign  which  the  Federation  has  been  pushing 
for  several  years  to  secure  educational  work  against  alcohol  by 
boards  of  health.  This  health  movement  may  now  be  fairly  said 
to  be  under  way  in  view  of  the  cordial  public  approval  given  the 
New  York  Health  Department  in  its  announced  purpose  to  in- 
clude education  in  its  work  of  promoting  public  health.  Another 
forthcoming  series  deals  with  alcohol  and  the  child. 

The  Press 

Special  articles  are  written  for  the  temperance  and  general 
press.  Leaflets  and  pamphlets  have  been  issued  on  the  relation 
of  alcohol  to  tuberculosis  and  other  social  questions,  the  special 
dangers  of  beer  and  wine,  compilations  of  pointed,  practical 
facts  which  have  a wide  circulation. 

Lectures 

Lectures  on  the  scientific  and  social  phases  of  the  alcohol 
question  areT given  by  the  secretaries  before  churches,  schools, 
clubs,  conventions,  congresses. 

Correspondence 

Information  is  sought  by  many  correspondents  on  a wide 
variety  of  subjects  which  the  Federation  library  enables  us  to 
supply.  The  compilation  of  special  material  for  writers  and 
lecturers  is  no  small  part,  and  an  important  one,  of  the  Fed- 
eration work.  It  helps  leaders  lead. 


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DRINK  BURDENS 


. f Abused  or  Neglected  because  1 

Children  In  black  of  Intemperance  of  Parents  45  8 nor  t'unt 
L or  Guardians  J ^ 


Of  Every  Dollar  Given  for  Relief  of  Neglected  or 
Destitute  Children  $0.46  Goes  to  Care 
for  the  Results  of  Drink 


Indirect  Influence 

One  of  the  most  important  results  of  all  this  work  of  the 
Scientific  Temperance  Federation  has  been  the  use  of  its  mate- 
rial by  other  educational  agencies.  Some  of  those  with  which 
the  Federation  has  worked  in  pursuance  of  its  policy  to  utilize 
existing  educational  forces  have  already  been  indicated.  There 
is  also  that  large  group  of  correspondents  who  ask  for  special 
data  for  use  in  papers,  reports,  articles  and  editorials. 

Even  more  important  is  the  use  of  facts  put  out  by  the 
Federation  which  find  their  way  into  the  many  articles  pub- 
lished by  the  magazines  and  weeklies  which  are  having  a power- 
ful influence  in  shaping  public  opinion  against  alcohol. 

The  Federation  has  no  “corner”  on  data,  but,  repeatedly, 
facts  for  the  original  publication  of  which  it  has  been  respon- 
sible, reappear  in  magazines  and  reports  in  forms  and  under 
circumstances  which  show  clearly  that  Scientific  Temperance 
Federation  publications  are  the  source  from  which  they  are 
derived. 


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Prevention  the  Work  to  be  Done 


The  prevention  of  alcoholism  and  its  consequences  to  so- 
ciety is  recognized  as  offering  the  largest  promise  of  solving  the 
alcohol  problem. 

The  facts  about  alcohol  are  the  fundamental  facts  of  the 
alcohol  problem.  The  movement  for  abolishing  the  manufacture 
and  sale  of  alcoholic  drinks  is  only  justifiable  and  reasonable  on 
the  ground  of  the  injury  which  the  alcohol  does  to  the  individual 
and  to  society. 

Therefore,  the  educational  work  the  Scientific  Temperance 
Federation  is  doing  is  basal  to  every  other  line  of  temperance 
activity.  In  its  effort  to  prevent  the  evils  attributable  to  alcohol 
its  work  is  fundamental  to  all  other  social  reforms  in  so  far  as 
alcohol  contributes  to  the  evils  which  these  reforms  are  trying 
to  remove  or  prevent. 


Working  Force 


The  Federation’s  actual  direct  work  has  been  done  by  a 
force  never  exceeding  the  number  of  two  secretaries,  a field 
secretary  who  is  out  with  the  exhibit,  a stenographer  and  one, 
or  at  the  most,  two  clerical  assistants. 


This  limited  force 
has  initiated  and  devel- 
oped the  new  plans  of 
work  described,  worked 
out  and  edited  the  ma- 
terial which  includes 
the  editing  of  a month- 
ly periodical  and  daily 
editorials,  besides  the 
leaflets,  posters,  books, 
and  pamphlets.  It  has 
done  much  of  the  actual 
manual  work  of  pre- 
paring exhibits ; it  does 
all  the  reviewing,  col- 
lecting and  filing  of  the 
library  resources ; car- 
ries on  the  correspond- 
ence ; keeps  the  books ; 
gives  public  lectures ; 
and.  in  addition,  has 
raised  a large  propor- 
tion of  the  funds  that 
have  made  possible  the 
work  done. 


Tax  Payer 
and  Philanthropist 
Pay  Drink’s  Bills 

■hc>S»ca«iM  ilwnwap  Am  dbvcttjf  «r  to  Mfe 

Poverty  25%  Pauperism  37%  Chfld  Misery  45.8% 

003 

Insanity  25#  Crime  50#  Divorce  19.5# 


How  Much  of  This  Do  You  Pay? 

"If  the  alcohol  question  were  solved  there  would  still  remain  other 
social  questions  to  be  solved,  but  it  is  also  true  that  ds  things  stand 
today  no  other  question  of  social  welfare  can  be  taken  up  with  any 
prospect  of  securing  effective  results  until  the  alcohol  auast&n  is 

Solved.”  “ vJutffiO  Htrmann  Popvrt,  Hamburg.  Germany. 


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Finances 


The  annual  budget  of  the  Federation  averages  $ 6,000. 
About  $ 1,500  are  derived  from  invested  funds,  lectures,  articles, 
exhibit  and  slide  rentals. 

The  remaining  $ 4,500  depends  upon  memberships  and  con- 
tributions. 


Needs 

The  $ 6,000  suffices  only  to  barely  continue  the  work  on  its 
present  basis.  To  meet  the  needs  of  a growing  demand  $10,000 
annually  is  imperatively  needed: 

1.  To  enlarge  the  exhibits  and  to  keep  them  at  work  under 

competent  supervision  in  at  least  50  cities  of  the  United 
States. 

2.  To  provide  another  secretary  and  stenographer  to  meet  the 

increasing  demand  for  new  posters,  pamphlets,  and  arti- 
cles for  the  general  press. 

3.  To  enlist  in  educational  work  against  alcohol  agencies  not 

now  co-operating  in  such  education. 

4.  To  develop  and  get  into  operation  certain  new  educational 

plans  not  yet  fully  employed  in  the  United  States. 

5.  To  supply  libraries  and  reading  rooms  with  facts  about 

alcohol  to  counteract  the  pro-liquor  publications  furnished 
by  the  liquor  agencies. 

6.  To  secure  recognition  and  discussion  of  the  alcohol  question 

in  great  industrial,  educational,  social  welfare  and  medical 
conventions. 

7.  To  furnish  the  literature  urgently  needed  in  many  sections 

of  the  country  where  there  are  no  funds  to  pay  for  it. 

8.  To  establish  systematic  study  of  the  alcohol  question  by 

women’s  clubs,  young  people’s  societies. 

9.  To  conduct  training  classes  for  those  who  wish  to  be  speakers 

or  leaders  in  the  educational  work  against  alcohol. 

The  Scientific  Temperance  Federation  has  proved  its  value. 
It  offers  givers  an  opportunity  for  constructive  work  in  the 
largest  sense,  prevention  through  education  in  doing  away  with 
the  evils  of  alcoholism. 


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